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The Capitals.
The key players — the dominant labs and flagship models.
Claude (Cowork merged in)
Anthropic
On 16 Sep 2026 Anthropic folded Cowork into the main Claude app: any conversation can now take on agentic work, with Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta and Claude Design built in.
Claude Code
Anthropic
Anthropic's coding agent now defaults to Claude Opus 5.5 on Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise and the API; v2.1.287 (1 Oct 2026) added mods, TypeScript plugins that reshape its behaviour.
Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic
Anthropic's new leading model and recommended default, performing at Claude Fable 5.1's level on most work while costing 40% less to run than Opus 5.
Gemini Omni
Google's any-input video model: Omni Flash makes and edits video from text, images, audio and video by conversation; version 1.1 (27 Aug 2026) extends clips to 40 s and costs about $0.10/sec.
GPT Image 2.5
OpenAI
GPT Image 2.5 (8 Sep 2026) comes as Flare, the fast default, and Sunburst, for precise edits; they hold first and second place on the Artificial Analysis text-to-image leaderboard.
GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI
OpenAI's most capable model and first of the GPT-6 generation, and the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework.
Seedance 2.5
ByteDance
Seedance 2.5 (Aug 2026) makes clips of up to 30 seconds from up to 50 mixed references and lets you re-edit specific moments or characters; it ranks 3rd on Artificial Analysis text-to-video.